Eating mothers and babies is not coolA Meat and Dairy Industries Article from All-Creatures.org

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It only occurred to me recently that we eat mothers
and babies. Although it has been about ten years without meat for me, I just
never really thought about it that way. We humans… we’re weirdly and
creepily psychopathic.

It only occurred to me recently that we eat mothers and babies. Although
it has been about ten years without meat for me, I just never really thought
about it that way. We humans… we’re weirdly and creepily psychopathic.

But truthfully speaking, it makes rational sense (in the 21st century) to
leave these folks completely off our plates, for many reasons and at many
levels – from the ecological sustainability of earth’s resources and
biodiversity, the severe public health implications (physiological, social
and psychological), the global economic disparities such as global hunger
and scarcity and so forth. Moreover, it really is a stark contradiction to
the ethical and core moral values we acclaim so highly in our ‘civilised’
societies – peace, justice, equality, compassion, freedom and love etc.
Values which are granted Nobel prizes, values which our political, religious
and spiritual systems are, in theory, built upon but unfortunately lack in
practice.

I don’t know how to tell the US, UK, Israel and others to stop the massacre
in the Middle East, nor plead international corporations and European
sanctions to can it on the economic exploitation in Africa and other
historically undermined regions, and nor do I know how to tell Angela Merkel
to stop vandalising the damn earth with coal energy and fossil fuels. Quite
frankly many have asked and marched in this attempt, but it is clearly not
within their interests to do so and I don’t anticipate much significant
improvement with the likes of Trump in office. However, I do know how to
tell myself not to pollute the earth, not to waste, and that to eat mothers,
babies, and embryos is not rationally sensible, especially when it is
absolutely not necessary. This means I, to the best of my abilities,
knowledge and privilege can make choices that contribute less to the
problems we have created.

As mentioned there are a host of things beyond our immediate control, but
what we eat is literally a choice we make three times a day, maybe more,
every day. And these simple choices have a direct and fundamental impact
across the macro-environment and micro-environment we subsist in. It is
powerful that that kind of agency is ours, by simple redirection of our
economic agency, aka money and consumer decisions, we can actually practice
these ethical and moral values in line with preserving the planet and the
biodiversity, while nurturing the body temple and not participating in what
is basically mass torture and murder (to express it bluntly). It is
psychotic to raise billions of sentient beings who have the same propensity,
sometimes more, to feel, experience, and have relationships as we do, yet
cage, torture and mutilate them. We intuitively know there’s something
fundamentally disturbing about that.

Amidst the madness of human conundrum it is an act towards conscious
consideration, towards more humility, kindness, love and compassion, not
perfection nor self righteousness. We will only have peace if we practice
peace, we will only have love if we practice love. It’s nothing complicated
and it need not be a big deal because ALL species want to live with little
to no harm and strain.

I’ll conclude by saying… Your body is your temple, their bodies are their
temples, and the Earth is our temple and these temples are worth nurturing
because we are all LIFE in them, we all NEED them and most critically we all
LIVE in them.

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